Tamir

Tamir (Arabic: تامر) [common Arabic name]

Faction: Saracen

Tamir is the first person Al Mualim wants Altair to assassinate. He is found in the poor district of Damascus

Description

Tamir runs the largest black market in Damascus. Some even say that its possibly the biggest underground trade in swords, spears, armor, and other equipment in the entire Holy Land. He specializes in arms and armor, but can aquire nearly anything if his buyers are willing to pay.

Tamir is known to be a heartless killer, and shows no remorse for it. Sometimes he even feels proud for the lives he takes. He will do whatever it takes for him to make a profit.

He is the main supplier of weapons to the Templars and there other parties who need arming. It is mentioned that in mentioned in a letter from one of Altaïr's targets to Robert de Sable (leader of the Templars) that a new weapon supplier would be needed after Tamir's death.

Death

He is assassinated by Altaïr in the middle of a courtyard in which he holds a meeting to discuss his stock progress. He is the first to deliver the cryptic messages that feeds Altaïr's curiosity of the reasons of his mission, and that he not acts alone, but he is part of a brotherhood.